PHON_O: Musica come Vita

His friendship with Apparat, his life in Berlin and his Design project as well. We have known Phon.o, artist from East Germany who had releases on Shitkatapult, Boysnoize rec. and 50 Weapons. He studied Design in the Kunsthochschule in Berlin where he moved years ago. Take a look to our talk with him. Enjoy!

What the first image you have in your mind if I say you “Shitkatapult”?

Great time – good friends!

Your friendship with Apparat: do you remember a funny moment with him looking back your career?

Oh yeah, there are so many great and funny moments. We started to do parties together to practicing our skills in front of a bigger audience. Later we started to do build a studio and doing music. Its hard to pick out one particular moment. Some are so funny but nothing for the public.

But I remember a weekend when we did a spontaneous party at a abondoned whorehouse. Some random dudes (former customers) stopped by because they saw the lights at the whorehouse and believed that there was the former business going on. We said that there is a kind of a “big gang bang” going on… they did not get the irony and were really impressed but pissed that they could not be part of it.

You moved in Ost-Berlin in 1997: was it easy to adapt yourself for a new city-life- style?

For me it was clear that I would move right after finishing school and civil service. So I really wanted to move to Berlin. This city gave me so much energy and was so mind blowing at this time that it was easy to get in the city-life-style.

You have studied Design also: do you have something in your mind that you would like to do in the future?

I still do some graphic works to keep me a little bit independent from the music bizz and for sure because it makes fun as well. I would love to do music for a movie with strong pictures for example. But also installations where music and graphics interact.

What are your goals for 2014? Is there something you want to say in preview?

I will release different EPs and I finished to co-produce a lot of music for a great artistic singer. For sure I keep collection ideas for my next album. Don’t know when I will start working on this. And I will work constantly on a new live set (contentwise). I also wanna change my live set from the way I play it.